Drone Strike Kills Pakistani Linked To ’09 Blast At CIA Afghan Base -- McClatchy News
ISLAMABAD — Missiles from a CIA drone killed a Pakistani Taliban leader Wednesday who was carrying a $5 million U.S. bounty on his head, Pakistani security officials said, an indication that the Obama administration and the Pakistani military still are cooperating on the top-secret U.S. targeted killing program.
The strike against Waliur Rehman Mehsud was the first in Pakistan since President Barack Obama outlined tighter rules for the controversial targeted killing program in a speech last week, and some experts questioned whether the criteria used to target him conformed to the president’s pledges of greater accountability and transparency.
In Washington, White House spokesman Jay Carney declined to confirm a U.S. hand in Mehsud’s death. But he contended that Mehsud “has participated in cross-border attacks in Afghanistan against U.S. and NATO personnel and horrific attacks against Pakistani civilians and soldiers.”
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My Comment: The U.S. government was offering $5 million for this terror leader .... I guess someone decided to collect. The CIA has been after him since the Dec. 30, 2009, suicide bombing at a CIA base in Khost, Afghanistan that killed 7 CIA officers. It only took 3 1/2 years .... but they finally got him. I suspect that there is some private celebrations going on in Langley.... as well as remembering the agents who were killed.
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